[DeTomaso] Charlie on the hook again....

[Göran Malmberg]

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From: "Roland Jaeckel" <Jaeckel-Partner-GMBH at t-online.de>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:27 PM
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [DeTomaso] Charlie on the hook again....


> Did any of you ever had a look into a british car electric of the early 
> seventies?
> Cars of that period usually had maybe three or four glass fuses at all.
> British cars never used fuse boxes as in the Pantera.
> Sure the Pantera has a Lucas wiper motor. Why? Because it was cheaper to
> construct a cable driven wiper system for a low production car.
> What kind of thermo switches where used by american cars of that period?
> They had none and if they had, the most of the switches came from Lucas.
> Lucas and Bosch where the biggest electrical system suppliers in that 
> time.
> What about the rest of the electrical system? Turn signal switch? FORD,
> Ignition switch? FORD. Alternator? FORD. Voltage regulator? FORD.
> Light, fan and other switches? Alfa Romeo. Lamps? Fiat and Alfa Romeo.
> Front turn signals are no British parts, the are from a FIAT 850 Spider 
> USA
> and the two colored ones are from a Renault 12.
> Wiring harness and relais? Made in Italy. So where you guys see a Lucas 
> system?
> Because it fails? I have a book at home, that i got from an old worker at 
> DT,
> where all DT supliers of that time are written down. Lucas is not on the 
> list.
> Every 30+ years old car has electrical problems and the most of them have 
> no
> Lucas system. I won't say that Lucas make good electrical systems, they 
> are a
> nightmare. But on the Pantera, the most broken parts in the electric are 
> the turn signal switch,
> the ignition switch, the alternator, the ignition system and the starter 
> motor.
> Who made all that parts? For sure not Lucas.
> Roland Jaeckel
> DeTomaso Parts Center Europe
> www.detomaso.de
>
> Mark McWhinney skrev:
>>>> LUCAS was never involved in the electrical system of a Pantera
>>
>> My windshield wiper fluid pump says LUCAS on it.
>
> As does the wiper motor and the cooling fans.
>
> There are other British electrical items, like the Otter fan
> thermo-switches, the front flashers, and I would be very surprised if
> not the entire electrical system around the steering wheel is British.
> The fusebox is probably British as well.
>
> Thomas
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